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‘As the NASA shuttle orbiting the Earth docked with the Mir space station, the hacker disrupted the computer systems monitoring the medical conditions of the crew.’

‘Suppose the shuttle sprang a leak and began losing its air supply.’

‘Dr. Bonnie Dunbar set the US space record of 112 days in space aboard the shuttle and Russian space station Mir.’

‘Gernhardt and Reilly will perform the planned spacewalks, while Kavandi operates the shuttle's robotic arm.’

‘NASA has conferred and discussed moving the shuttle to a hangar, and all of that to prepare as Dennis approaches.’

‘Among the Columbia's three assigned shuttlecraft was a fourth, the shuttle from the Independence.’

‘Is there a danger that in trying to launch so many shuttles each year, corners will be cut, mistakes will be missed, and risks will be introduced?’

‘There aren't fast or slow shuttles but warm conditions do speed up the shuttle's flight, a bit like when tyres on a Formula One car can go quicker because they're hotter.’

‘NASA's three shuttles were secured in the orbiter processing facility.’

‘The shuttle never achieved its lofty launch schedule promised early in the program.’

‘Finally, with a lurch, the shuttle disengaged from the station and began its wild descent to the planet below.’

‘He will perform two or three spacewalks while the shuttle is docked to the international space station.’

‘China takes over the International Space Station and begins upgrading it, using a Hermes plane as a shuttle for the station’

‘Back in 1985 and early 86, there was pressure to meet the goal of flying the shuttle 24 times a year.’

‘Strangely, none of the powerful planetary sensor stations could detect the shuttle or its four occupants.’

‘On the launchpad the shuttle weighs four and a half million pounds.’

‘This will be Noguchi's first flight into space, and he will be the fifth Japanese astronaut to fly aboard the shuttle.’

‘Another possibility is that the shuttle came back into earth's orbit at an improper angle.’

‘In the event of an emergency on the launch pad, the astronauts can evacuate the shuttle up to 30 seconds before launch.’

‘We watched the shuttle and the space station fly overhead tonight.’

2A wooden device with two pointed ends holding a bobbin, used for carrying the weft thread between the warp threads in weaving.

‘Also on display on the cart are accessories once familiar to thousands of East Lancashire weavers - shuttles and pirns on which weft yarn was wound.’

‘Not much later, she was settled into a comfortable rhythm, the shuttle darting in and out between the warp threads.’

‘Different colored silks and metal threads have their own separate shuttles and are painstakingly worked backwards and forwards through the warps to create the complex design bands at each end of the textile.’

‘She eventually lost her cool when the Chinese left-hander wanted to change the shuttle after messing up a return.’

‘Nathan first played at six, Gail at four, her mother lobbing shuttles at her as she wielded a specially shortened racket.’

‘I readied myself just behind the service line and kicked off as soon as the shuttle touched my racket.’

‘I looked at the number of courts set up in the gym and saw the shuttle being played back and forwards.’

‘Start with one person standing just in front of the player throwing shuttles up into the backhand side.’

‘Though as per the International Badminton Federation regulations, shuttles of three speeds should be made available.’

‘Rallies last far longer than in tennis - about 10 shots more on average - and the shuttle is in play for roughly double the time.’

verb

[NO OBJECT]

1Travel regularly between two or more places.

‘he shuttled between Manhattan and Silicon Valley’

‘In divorced families all over the world today, the kids are being shuttled from the mom's house to the dad's possibly, bringing up one more fight about custody, unless your agreement anticipated this.’

‘The Brighton Belle was the Pullman train, electric, of course, which shuttled to and fro between London and Brighton, beloved by theatre people and race-goers.’

‘I will be up at New York a lot too, because a lot of the shows we have come out of New York, so I will be shuttling back and forth.’

‘In the meantime, the private players will go on finetuning the facilities they offer to regulars who shuttle between these cities.’

‘They would then shuttle to and fro between the combat fleets and London, relaying information and directives.’

‘The utter hopelessness of attempting to gain sleep while shuttling to and fro inside a coach is almost impossible to communicate.’

‘He is just back from a family skiing holiday in Norway and is continually shuttling to and fro, from the gleaming red motor home to the pits.’

‘The economy is made in the scale of a trip for 40 or so divers sharing minibuses and vans, with club boats shuttling in and out all day long.’

‘There are also buses full of foreign tourists and business travellers shuttling in a dignified manner between the airport and various star hotels.’

‘Dubey had married Nalini, a Malayali in early September and now plans to shuttle between his present base in Mumbai and the forthcoming centre here.’

‘So you have children who are shuttled along from parents to guardians to guardians, and they have experienced this amount of abandonment and, you know, literally abandonment, and insecurity.’

‘While shuttling between the late 1960s and new millennium, the focus lingers claustrophobically on one hot summer holiday, by the seaside, when Julian's father was called away from his family and back to the prison.’

‘But the idea of a vehicle that shuttles on a regular route beyond earth's gravity is awesome.’

‘The perfect pit stop for weekenders shuttling between the dramatic scenery of Loch Torridon and the quirky exotic gardens at Inverewe, Gairloch's friendly Old Inn is set back from the village's small harbour in a pretty valley.’

‘Soon she was shuttling regularly to Gdansk via Berlin to take advantage of cheap flights.’

‘The Taiwan people shuttling between the two cities have brought travel agencies in Taiwan brisk business.’

‘Waiters looked after kids and pinched babies' cheeks, laughter flooded from the open kitchen and plates of food shuttled back and forth with incredible regularity.’

‘On Thursdays he also runs a badminton clubs for other school pupils at York RI in Queen Street where rackets and shuttles are provided alongside the 90 minute coaching sessions.’

ply, run, commute, alternate, come and go, go back and forth, travel back and forth, go to and fro, travel to and fro

‘the river taxi shuttled employees between the newspaper's offices and the capital’

‘Along with about two-dozen other bank employees being shuttled to work on a minibus, Shakir was waiting at the same checkpoint.’

‘Periodically, float planes cruised by, shuttling their passengers home from the San Juan Islands.’

‘We saw a woman who was being pulled off a Coast Guard helicopter late yesterday afternoon who we were told was in labor as she was being shuttled inside the airport terminal.’

‘The exhibition feels like a trade show with art as a by product, an image overflow holding pen for bored commuters with time to spare as they shuttle to the airport.’

‘Not even movie-makers could not resist the pull of Marigot Bay and Hollywood stars were shuttled there to shoot scenes for the Dr Dolittle movie.’

‘Free ferries shuttle pedestrians across the channel when the bridge is open.’

‘The ferries that used to shuttle area residents along the river stopped in the 1950s when a highway cut the neighborhood off from the waterfront.’

‘Still leading, the Camaro is heading for a turn-off which leads to the Albion ferry, a car and passenger ferry which shuttles traffic between Maple Ridge City and the suburb of Langley.’

‘Both men served in the 37th Field Transfusion Unit where Mr Wilson was the driver and responsible for shuttling plasma to injured soldiers aboard his little refrigerated truck.’

‘Sitting under the huge canvas and wooden umbrella outside the restaurant, watching waiters in traditional Chinese costumes shuttling back and forth, you will find business does not belong to you any longer on such a relaxed evening.’

‘The tunnels are quite long and many employees who's job it is to shuttle stuff back and forth throughout headquarters drive little golf cart.’

‘Water trucks were shuttled in from nearby Vladivostok, so we were at least able to ‘flush’ the toilet.’

‘Currently, on certain tides, the ferries have to moor in the harbour and passengers are shuttled to the pier in smaller passenger boats or timetables have to be changed to accommodate the low tides.’

‘After the rowers were shuttled off to the hotel for a night of rest, the parents ate a lovely dinner by the lake and watched the sun set.’

‘Wind the clock forward half a millennia or so and Queen Elizabeth II wears the crown, and Hythe ferry is still shuttling passengers across Southampton Water.’

‘The Concorde has been shuttling passengers across the Atlantic across twice the speed of sound for 30 years.’

‘Ferries have been shuttling people on the 6.2-mile trip between Manhattan and Staten Island since 1713.’

‘On Election Day the county Democratic leaders would drive around the rural areas picking up African-American voters and shuttling them to the polls.’

‘It's a piercingly bright day in Bournemouth, the sea is sparkling, the little blue road-train is shuttling tourists down to the pier, and inflation is at its lowest rate in 30 years.’

Origin

Old English scytel dart, missile of Germanic origin; compare with Old Norse skutill harpoon; related to shoot. Sense 1 and the verb are from the movement of the bobbin from one side of the loom to the other and back.